Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:41:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command: host -l domain.com Message-ID: <19990524194109.27781.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com>
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Right, some people like to waste bandwidth, and others use it to launch denial of services attacks some how. I personally like to limit anything that can be used against me or my ISP in any way at all. Holt --- Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Holtor wrote: > > > > > But when i do host -l mydomain.com > > > it lists everything... > > > Is this something in named i can edit to not > list? > > > > Security through obscurity is a really bad idea. > What is so precious about > > your DNS records that you can't share. > > > > It's more of a bandwidth-limiting thing. Zone > transfers are fairly > taxing, especially if you have large zones. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: > The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | > www.freebsd.org > > _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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